Thinking Christmas already

Who doesn't appreciate the addition of a fresh flower in the home?  Whether a gardener or not, there is always just a little something pretty to be brought in from outside.  That's what makes these beautiful Ikebana vases so wonderful as presents...like a complementary frame makes a painting so much more...so does the perfect vase for the simplest floral sprig of hydrangea, Christmas holly or single poinsettia.   Come vist the Gallery to see the full selection. 

To Everything There Is A Season

What’s amazing to me about Barbara Gerber is that she grew up in New York City yet has the greatest sensitivity to the nuanced details of the tiniest leaves, petals and bits of garden flora she cleverly assembles into card messages of hope, joy, and encouragement.

Using dried flora, her creative eye reveals an iris as a dress, petals become faces, a pansy bud is a hat, weeds are dancers…

 a bleeding heart becomes the bodice to a dress & and countless more enchanting ways she has "painted" with her garden's bounty.

Barbara now lives in North Carolina where she employs a lovely gingko tree and all assortment of flowers, leaves, weeds, seeds and stems from her garden to create her original, copyrighted artwork that she reproduces into cards.

I’m very happy that she came into the Gallery to introduce herself.   Her distinctive work is in a league of its own.  Come by to admire the selection for yourself if you are in the area.

Some things just resonate.

Susan lives over the mountain and down a hill in North Carolina. Since my first shop, I have shown her watercolor work.  What I want to tell you is that not only is her work lovely and inspired…she and her husband Clay are wonderful, caring people…as her work would lead you to Believe.  Susan creates 5 x7 prints that fit in standard frames that are very popular in the Gallery given the number of religious conference center visitors that  surround the town of  Black Mountain .  This is how I wish I could paint!

Who knew ceiling tiles could be this beautiful!

I met Linda at a Wildflower Art and Craft Show where we were both exhibitors.   Surrounded by her wildflower artwork, it gave her an air of femininity and grace.   A few years later when I opened my current location, I asked if I could represent her work in the Gallery, and she was delighted.   I love that she paints on distressed metal ceiling tiles that serve as frames.   The simple but elegant paintings depict lady’s slippers, jack in the pulpit, trillium, ferns, hydrangea and poppy blossoms…all hard to find in artwork.   They are well suited for displaying in pairs or trios…her work is affordable for those who appreciate original paintings without an exorbitant price tag. I know, I bought one years ago.   A sampling of current offerings are pictured.

                                                    

Love You Forever

When my son was little, my good friend Ellen gave me this little paperback, Love You Forever, about a mother’s enduring love for her child.  I could hardly read it, even today, without a tear.  There is something so sentimental, so achingly true about the eternal connection between a Mother and a child that author Robert Munsch captured perfectly in this tender book. With permission by the author, and inspired by a customer’s request, I designed this sterling silver charm with Munsch’s famous lines:

I’ll love you forever

I’ll like you for always

as long as I’m living

my baby you’ll be.

for more details, see Dee Sharp Jewelry website.